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former campaign strategist steve schmidt. >> chuck todd, chuck todd, when have i been this surprised? when has the whole class been surprised? you have to go back to tokyo. and you just sit there going where in the hell did that come? where did that come from? >> come on now. mitt romney is a much better heavyweight fighter than buster douglas ever was. >> that's not the comparison. you can't believe the champ was taken down and made to look so little. >> listen, you can probably go through this. this is sort of the obama folks are going to console themselves this morning. this is the first presidential debate featuring an incumbent president where the challenger won. you go to reagan. you go to bush in '92. not clinton in '96. go to kerry in '04 and go to today. you got to say, is there something to it? where the incumbent sits there? annoyed he's on equal footing. out of practice, number two. and number three, sort of shackled in by how he knows the job is. not how he wishes the job was or what he was hoping it would be when he was a candidate. throw that all aside. mitt romney didn
former campaign strategist steve schmidt. >> chuck todd, chuck todd, when have i been this surprised? when has the whole class been surprised? you have to go back to tokyo. and you just sit there going where in the hell did that come? where did that come from? >> come on now. mitt romney is a much better heavyweight fighter than buster douglas ever was. >> that's not the comparison. you can't believe the champ was taken down and made to look so little. >> listen, you can...
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todd was talking about among the press. >> they're engaged. >> and chuck todd is now saying from looking at the nbc numbers unless the president kicks it into gear, i do want to say, just as a caveat, let's look at t the gallup daily tracking poll, it shows the president actually up business 5 points, that's among registered voters, those are not people who are likely to vote. the likely voters are the pew. the more likely you are to vote, at least today, at least the more likely you have to vote for mitt romney. the more you expand that out. because for people just tuning into this election, you've got likely voters, the most likely to vote, you've got registered voters who are in the middle and you have polls of americans and that 's basically drag anybody off the street and ask them a question. >> voters in iowa, a day after delivering what his campaign called ed ed a major foreign po debate. romney hit a wide range of hot button issues from the arab world, from the civil war in syria, so the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. the issue of iran's program was woven throughout mu
todd was talking about among the press. >> they're engaged. >> and chuck todd is now saying from looking at the nbc numbers unless the president kicks it into gear, i do want to say, just as a caveat, let's look at t the gallup daily tracking poll, it shows the president actually up business 5 points, that's among registered voters, those are not people who are likely to vote. the likely voters are the pew. the more likely you are to vote, at least today, at least the more likely...
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i'm chuck todd. a big hour ahead, including daily reaction from orrin hatch, governor martin o'malley and many more. let's get to the first read of the morning. in what may be the most substantive debate in the era of televised presidential debates. mitt romney performed as if his campaign depended on it, while a surprisingly subdued president obama allowed his challenger to dictate the terms of the debate. from the start, romney displayed confidence and demanding the presence on stage. he oned up the president on his own wedding anniversary shoutout. >> i want to wish you, sweetie, happy anniversary. >> congratligss on your anniversary. i'm sure this was the most romantic place you could imagine, here with me. >> that set the tone as romney seemed to control the tempo. sometimes serving as the moderator himself. >> let's get back to medicare. the president began this segment. so i get the last word. >> you're going to get the first word of the next segment. >> he gets the first word of that segment.
i'm chuck todd. a big hour ahead, including daily reaction from orrin hatch, governor martin o'malley and many more. let's get to the first read of the morning. in what may be the most substantive debate in the era of televised presidential debates. mitt romney performed as if his campaign depended on it, while a surprisingly subdued president obama allowed his challenger to dictate the terms of the debate. from the start, romney displayed confidence and demanding the presence on stage. he oned...
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. >> chuck todd has spoken to both campaigns tonight since the debate and joins us now from the spin room. chuck? >> well, rachel, what is interesting to hear from the spin is if what they say and the body language with which they convey it, i think what is interesting with the romney campaign, we had a strategy tonight and we executed it. we weren't going to follow the charges of the president. we weren't going to take the bait and have these specific debate. we weren't going to get into this back and forth. he had a goal tonight to meet the commander in chief test and okay. they are not claiming victory tonight. they are simply claiming they passed a bar and, look, i think to your point, it was interesting at times. i felt like he was giving a book report, that there were a lot of world book facts that would show up in some of his answers. and that was clearly their strategy. they were acting as if they were on a trajectory -- they think they are on a trajectory to win so don't do anything to interrupt that trajectory. i can tell you in talking to some of the foreign policy heavywe
. >> chuck todd has spoken to both campaigns tonight since the debate and joins us now from the spin room. chuck? >> well, rachel, what is interesting to hear from the spin is if what they say and the body language with which they convey it, i think what is interesting with the romney campaign, we had a strategy tonight and we executed it. we weren't going to follow the charges of the president. we weren't going to take the bait and have these specific debate. we weren't going to...
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sort of to chuck todd's point which is this. we could talk about the labor force participation rate until everybody's eyes roll into the back of their head and they keel over. right? it's something that's difficult to discuss. what matters is that headline number with a seven handle on the street. 7.8%. whatever the reason the president can now say i've brought the unemployment rate below 8%. i think that's a big win. i think it is a very important number for president obama to have it sub 8. >> again just to push back with you though, brian, the only reason that number went down below 8 is because, not because we're adding jobs to bring the unemployment rate down but because people have stopped looking for work. right? >> i agree with that. the labor force participation rate at 65.6% rate is awful. absolutely agreed. why it's that low, is it retirees, kids that are 22 giving up? who knows? but that's a harder political thing to sell than saying, hey. we're below 8%. right? >> yes. >> i mean, that's the headline that is going to
sort of to chuck todd's point which is this. we could talk about the labor force participation rate until everybody's eyes roll into the back of their head and they keel over. right? it's something that's difficult to discuss. what matters is that headline number with a seven handle on the street. 7.8%. whatever the reason the president can now say i've brought the unemployment rate below 8%. i think that's a big win. i think it is a very important number for president obama to have it sub 8....
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stephanie cutter, by the way, good job competing with chuck todd sitting next to you. >> say hi to chuck todd yelling right next to me. >> i know, he's right next to me. >> good luck there. >> we appreciate it. so mark mckinnon, they do have a problem, actually, the buried remarks over the past four years, that's -- i mean, you heard stephanie saying, well, actually, we've created all these new jobs. that seems to go against the argument that the middle class has been buried over the past four years. >> well, i think raets the real question. and what that remark says and what we may see tonight is people refocus on that question. how have i done during the last four years? i think people are going to really start to think about that tonight and the last four weeks and what are the policies that may make things better? you were just pointing out there's some indicators out there, auto sales are up, beer sales are up, home sales are up. >> that may not be an indicator. that may be a bad one. >> obama in his role is leader of this country has not fixed the problem. and i would wait -- >> th
stephanie cutter, by the way, good job competing with chuck todd sitting next to you. >> say hi to chuck todd yelling right next to me. >> i know, he's right next to me. >> good luck there. >> we appreciate it. so mark mckinnon, they do have a problem, actually, the buried remarks over the past four years, that's -- i mean, you heard stephanie saying, well, actually, we've created all these new jobs. that seems to go against the argument that the middle class has been...
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you're one of the top health care experts. >> still ahead, chuck todd. we'll be back in just a moment. i've worked hard to build my family. and also to build my career. so i'm not about to always let my frequent bladder urges, or the worry my pipes might leak get in the way of my busy lifestyle. that's why i take care, with vesicare. once-daily vesicare can help control your bladder muscle and is proven to treat overactive bladder with symptoms of frequent urges and leaks day and night. if you have certain stomach or glaucoma problems, or trouble emptying your bladder, do not take vesicare. vesicare may cause allergic reactions that may be serious. if you experience swelling of the face, lips, throat or tongue, stop taking vesicare and get emergency help. tell your doctor right away if you have severe abdominal pain, or become constipated for three or more days. vesicare may cause blurred vision, so use caution while driving or doing unsafe tasks. common side effects are dry mouth, constipation, and indigestion. i've worked hard to get to where i am... a
you're one of the top health care experts. >> still ahead, chuck todd. we'll be back in just a moment. i've worked hard to build my family. and also to build my career. so i'm not about to always let my frequent bladder urges, or the worry my pipes might leak get in the way of my busy lifestyle. that's why i take care, with vesicare. once-daily vesicare can help control your bladder muscle and is proven to treat overactive bladder with symptoms of frequent urges and leaks day and night....
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stick around right now for chuck todd. >>> foreign exchange, third debate between president obama and mitt romney. packed a punch. the biggest bellwether of the night might be a back and forth, not over the middle east, china or europe but ohio. a battle over the buckeye state was one of the few topics that pushed romney to engage the president and ohio's one of seven battleground states. we'll show you where you'll see the candidates nonstop. one state not on the list anymore, nevada. find out why the silver state may be gold for the president's electoral vote. good morning from lynn university in boca raton, florida. two weeks until election day. let me repeat, it's two weeks until election day, and also october 23, 2012, this is "the daily rundown" and i'm chucked to. let's get to first reads. the third and final debate between president obama and mitt romney was a study in contrast. but it wasn't contrast on the debate itself. an aggressive president acting like a candidate with more to prove and a risk averse romney playing prevent defense, aiming to do no harm. president gamed a
stick around right now for chuck todd. >>> foreign exchange, third debate between president obama and mitt romney. packed a punch. the biggest bellwether of the night might be a back and forth, not over the middle east, china or europe but ohio. a battle over the buckeye state was one of the few topics that pushed romney to engage the president and ohio's one of seven battleground states. we'll show you where you'll see the candidates nonstop. one state not on the list anymore, nevada....
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i'm chuck todd. i think we're now under three hours until the first poll closed. developing now, live pictures of an obama campaign rally in tampa, florida. the president in the middle of a 48-hour nonstop campaign swing after an overnight flight from nevada. he's hitting the trifecta today. he'll be in virginia and ohio later and then a stop in chicago to vote early before heading back to the white house for a little bit of sleep late tonight. the president is expected to speak any minute now. of course brian williams has been traveling with the president. he joins me now from that tampa rally. brian, i'm in hamilton county perhaps the most important county. you're in the most important county in florida. >> reporter: this county has 10% of the vote in. the last couple rallies since we've been on the trail, it's all about early vote. early vote. last night katy perry event in nevada was all about early vote. president is coming on the stage now. i'm about ten feet away from the senior strategist in the chicago engine room who is on this trip and like all of the g
i'm chuck todd. i think we're now under three hours until the first poll closed. developing now, live pictures of an obama campaign rally in tampa, florida. the president in the middle of a 48-hour nonstop campaign swing after an overnight flight from nevada. he's hitting the trifecta today. he'll be in virginia and ohio later and then a stop in chicago to vote early before heading back to the white house for a little bit of sleep late tonight. the president is expected to speak any minute now....
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quite a beautiful sight, but even chuck todd and our first read team noted that image alone could look like you still have a few more debates to go. >> well, i think that's right. look, i think the romney campaign knows they don't want to be seen as too over the top either in their own comments or exuberance or the fireworks, which i system they weren't trying to suggest that this was the end of the election. >> absolutely not. >> they were having a moment to sell bralcelebrate and if the s on the other foot, i suspect obama would take heat for it. i doubt we'll have fireworks at the nekz presidential debate. >> you don't know. we might have a different kind of fireworks with vice president joe biden, which so many say now democrats are concerned of whether or not he will help or hurt. we'll talk about that later. we have a lot of time for that. thank you for your time. have a great weekend david, anne and jonathan. >>> coming up, an update on the ongoing voter i.d. battle, this one in florida. a federal judge refuses to stop the state from purging names from the voter rolls. we'll get
quite a beautiful sight, but even chuck todd and our first read team noted that image alone could look like you still have a few more debates to go. >> well, i think that's right. look, i think the romney campaign knows they don't want to be seen as too over the top either in their own comments or exuberance or the fireworks, which i system they weren't trying to suggest that this was the end of the election. >> absolutely not. >> they were having a moment to sell...
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. >>> coming up, we'll talk to nbc political news director chuck todd. reverend al sharpton, david remnick and kate white. up next in the "politico playbook," clint eastwood makes another cameo in the presidential campaign. >> oh, no. >> oh, dear. mike allen will explain that next. >>> but first, here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill. >> good morning, everyone. a difficult day for meteorologists up and down the east coast, myself included. we're looking at the potential for an historic storm to develop from sandy and be somewhere in new england about monday and tuesday of next week. let me explain what's happening here. sandy has intensified. it looks to approach jamaica today as a hurricane, cross cuba most likely as a hurricane as we go throughout the day tomorrow. as we put the maps in motion, notice florida, very close to sandy on friday, tropical storm watches have been issued for southeast florida. it looks like a glancing blow for you. then it looks like the storm will be between the outer banks and bermuda sunday into monday when
. >>> coming up, we'll talk to nbc political news director chuck todd. reverend al sharpton, david remnick and kate white. up next in the "politico playbook," clint eastwood makes another cameo in the presidential campaign. >> oh, no. >> oh, dear. mike allen will explain that next. >>> but first, here's bill karins with a check on the forecast. bill. >> good morning, everyone. a difficult day for meteorologists up and down the east coast, myself...
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. >> chuck todd will be here, also andrea mitchell, the stars of stars. up next, the top stories in the "politico playbook." first bill karins has a look at the forecast. >> good monday morning. huge storm in the middle of the country brought nasty weather. that is now sliding to the eastern seaboard. we have rain this morning. it's heading out of the mountains of north carolina around asheville heading for hickory shortly and eventually towards the queen city around charlotte and greensboro. that will be the tail end of the rush hour. further to the south, atlanta, it's raining now but it's almost over with. i think as we go throughout the peak of your rush hour, the rain should be moving off towards your east. and then the final stop, down a little further to the south in areas of louisiana still to deal with some rain. new orleans, i'd say that rain probably about an hour away from you. so as far as what we're going to deal with in the northeast, it's a dry start to the day. it's very warm, just like it was on sunday. but we will have showers and storm
. >> chuck todd will be here, also andrea mitchell, the stars of stars. up next, the top stories in the "politico playbook." first bill karins has a look at the forecast. >> good monday morning. huge storm in the middle of the country brought nasty weather. that is now sliding to the eastern seaboard. we have rain this morning. it's heading out of the mountains of north carolina around asheville heading for hickory shortly and eventually towards the queen city around...
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robert gibbs, and chuck todd. up next, we've got an exclusive new look at the top stories in the playbook, but first, let's go to bill karins. he's got a check on the forecast. bill, pretty nice day today in new york, but ugly elsewhere, right? >> yeah, a little bit windy in the northern plains, stormy in the northwest. but we are getting rid of this storm system that kicked through new england yesterday. and we can thank that storm for pushing hurricane rafael away from the eastern sea board. this became a hurricane yesterday in between bermuda and puerto rico. strong storm, it's about 800 or so miles off the east coast and heading away from us. that's good, just some large waves. i mentioned that storm in new england is leaving, the rain is done in boston, just about over on cape cod, a little bit of light rain for you up there in maine this morning. the forecast for today, looks like a beautiful fall day from d.c. to baltimore, philly, all the way up through new york city and all of new england. and as far as t
robert gibbs, and chuck todd. up next, we've got an exclusive new look at the top stories in the playbook, but first, let's go to bill karins. he's got a check on the forecast. bill, pretty nice day today in new york, but ugly elsewhere, right? >> yeah, a little bit windy in the northern plains, stormy in the northwest. but we are getting rid of this storm system that kicked through new england yesterday. and we can thank that storm for pushing hurricane rafael away from the eastern sea...
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this is "the daily rundown," i'm chuck todd. we've got a ton to get to. let me get right to my first reads of the morning. with just hours left until tonight's final debate, our new nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows how competitive this race has become. an important slice of undecided voters still are not persuaded to rehire the president. but also not convinced, it seems, he needs to be fired. will anything tonight help these folks decide? well, the candidates prep their surrogates spoke out sunday, previewing tonight's lines of attack. >> the american people have gotten to see mitt romney up close as he offers his vision of the future, and what he would do as president. but even more startling is the president's complete failure to put forth an agenda for the next four years. >> people want to know they have a strong, steady hand in the oval office and they don't want someone who is reckless. we all remember his "dukes of hazard" tour of international destinations over the summer. >> but tonight's session on foreign policy, which sounded weeks a
this is "the daily rundown," i'm chuck todd. we've got a ton to get to. let me get right to my first reads of the morning. with just hours left until tonight's final debate, our new nbc news "wall street journal" poll shows how competitive this race has become. an important slice of undecided voters still are not persuaded to rehire the president. but also not convinced, it seems, he needs to be fired. will anything tonight help these folks decide? well, the candidates prep...
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. >> chuck todd has spoken to both campaigns tonight since the debate and joins us now from the spin room. chuck? >> well, rachel, what is interesting to hear from the spin is if what they say and the body language with which they convey it, i think what is interesting with the romney campaign, we had a strategy tonight and we executed it. we weren't going to follow the charges of the president. we weren't going to take the bait and have these specific debate. we weren't going to get into this back and forth. he had a goal tonight to meet the commander in chief test and okay. they are not claiming victory tonight. they are simply claiming they passed a bar and, look, i think to your point, it was interesting at times. i felt like he was giving a book report, that there were a lot of world book facts that would show up in some of his answers. and that was clearly their strategy. they were acting as if they were on a trajectory -- they think they are on a trajectory to win so don't do anything to interrupt that trajectory. i can tell you in talking to some of the foreign policy heavywe
. >> chuck todd has spoken to both campaigns tonight since the debate and joins us now from the spin room. chuck? >> well, rachel, what is interesting to hear from the spin is if what they say and the body language with which they convey it, i think what is interesting with the romney campaign, we had a strategy tonight and we executed it. we weren't going to follow the charges of the president. we weren't going to take the bait and have these specific debate. we weren't going to...
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nbc news political director chuck todd, i think he's in the mile-high city right now. he'll join us. then at 8:40, we're going to talk -- did chuck go to miami? big game this weekend. i may have to talk to him about that. we're going to talk fed policy and politics with jim grant of grant's interest rate observer. first, though, becky has your morning headlines. >>> let's get to some of that corporate news. american airlines says improperly installed clamps are to blame for seats coming loose. found four other boeing 757s with the same issue. it is now in the process of fixing those clamps. >>> also, best buy founder richard schultz is pressing forward with the possible $11 billion buyout of the retailer. schultze and four other retailers have started examining the books of the company. he is said to be negotiating individually on details of how much of his roughly 20% of the stake of the company he would contribute in a bid and what role he would play after a buyout. coming back in as ceo or not. let's get a check on the markets. things have been holding steady becaus
nbc news political director chuck todd, i think he's in the mile-high city right now. he'll join us. then at 8:40, we're going to talk -- did chuck go to miami? big game this weekend. i may have to talk to him about that. we're going to talk fed policy and politics with jim grant of grant's interest rate observer. first, though, becky has your morning headlines. >>> let's get to some of that corporate news. american airlines says improperly installed clamps are to blame for seats...
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to that end, chuck todd joins us from the debate site with new polling information out today. chuck, what do we know today, chuck? >> i think we know, look, there has been some movement in romney's direction. now, some of it is, i would say, if you look at everything we've learned over the last few days, in our polling, in ohio, florida, and virginia, in the cbs/"new york times" polling, it feels like everything has moved to what i would call preconvention, right, before there was a democratic bounce, and before there was any sort of romney bounce, where this is a close race, but when you look in the battleground states there seems to be still a small advantage for the president. look at ohio. i think the most important number of the polls we had today was this early voting result that we found where one in five ohioans have already voted and the president's winning 2-1 among those folks that have already voted. that's a big organizational advantage. he's banking some vote. that's a big deal, and that's an important result to look at. i also think there's some other trend here
to that end, chuck todd joins us from the debate site with new polling information out today. chuck, what do we know today, chuck? >> i think we know, look, there has been some movement in romney's direction. now, some of it is, i would say, if you look at everything we've learned over the last few days, in our polling, in ohio, florida, and virginia, in the cbs/"new york times" polling, it feels like everything has moved to what i would call preconvention, right, before there...
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chuck todd is with us from the spin room and he's been talking to the democratic side about what their take is on tonight. we've heard a little bit of it on the air and a little more from howard fineman, chuck who are you hearing? >> very similar. i can tell you they're not being -- they're trying to sugar coat it a little publicly. what do you expect them to do -- that's what a spin room is for but they know they lost and you can hear it in david's voice because he sits there and says -- but long term, when we have a conversation with votersbility mitt romney saying he's not going to raise a single tax to deal with the deficit that he's going to double down on the voucher program with medicare, these will be arguments we win in the long term and he emphasized that term, "long term." sort of the tacid admission. i think they expected the president to do a little better. they told a lot of us he wasn't going to make the mistake president bush made in 2004. i femt like i saw a rerun of bush/kerry, 2004. we had the challenge geared up knowing how to have a good night and had a good night
chuck todd is with us from the spin room and he's been talking to the democratic side about what their take is on tonight. we've heard a little bit of it on the air and a little more from howard fineman, chuck who are you hearing? >> very similar. i can tell you they're not being -- they're trying to sugar coat it a little publicly. what do you expect them to do -- that's what a spin room is for but they know they lost and you can hear it in david's voice because he sits there and says --...
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also chuck todd pointing at a scenario 269-269. guest: the political junkie in this, we look for scenarios that are not likely but possible. have happened very rarely. in the case of the bush-gore redux, when we look at the polls today we can see why this discussion is happening. you have national polls showing a very tight race. some show mitt romney with a big lead, some with a smaller lead, or the president with a small lead. in the battleground states, that is where the president has shown a consistent lead in those major states that decide the election. you can see a scenario where you have a popular vote winner and mitt romney and an electoral vote winner in president obama. i stress again, that is very rare. at the end of the day what usually happens is there is the momentum. however slight it pushes the electorial and national vote one way. host:politico writing -- guest: ohio, we know is the key to the race. the folks on the democratic side say, yes, the race has tightened but we still feel good about ohio as ever. republi
also chuck todd pointing at a scenario 269-269. guest: the political junkie in this, we look for scenarios that are not likely but possible. have happened very rarely. in the case of the bush-gore redux, when we look at the polls today we can see why this discussion is happening. you have national polls showing a very tight race. some show mitt romney with a big lead, some with a smaller lead, or the president with a small lead. in the battleground states, that is where the president has shown...